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Upheaval in Africa Sir: If, as you stated, the Belgian Congo has stridden "out of the Stone Age in a matter of decades," then it has reverted to the Stone Age in a matter of days...
...mind to risk the dangers of nuclear war but is using cheap talk to show Communists the world over that nobody can be more militant than Nikita. One sign of a bluff called came last week as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a resolution calling for Belgian troops to withdraw "speedily" from the Congo. Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov grinned sheepishly and stopped protesting that the Congolese wanted military help only from the peace-loving Soviets. As open laughter sounded in the hall, the Soviet delegate cast his vote for the West-backed resolution, dropped...
...United Nations, once dismissed as that debating society on the East River, last week saved the Congo from collapse. With order breaking down, with Belgian paratroopers and mutinous Congolese troops at deadly loggerheads, the U.N. swiftly put together a force that stemmed the slide toward chaos. It was the U.N.'s finest hour, the greatest accomplishment in its short, 15-year history...
...month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency food supplies, and from Washington, Moscow and London, he obtained promises to provide the planes to deliver the supplies. From East and West he summoned veterans of other...
Exodus. By week's end an estimated 60,000 of the 80,000 Belgians had fled before the rampaging soldiery. In Luluabourg only 54 of 3,600 Belgians were left, and mutineers still roamed the streets looting European shops and homes. From outlying districts there came more reports of rape and mayhem. In the Equator province a Roman Catholic priest was tied to a stake, forced to watch as ten nuns were repeatedly raped. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Wigny spoke for his nation last week when he cried in Parliament: "Do we really have to prove...